Google confirms that it listens to user conversations with the virtual assistant

Recently, Google has confirmed that its language experts listen to up to 0.2% of the conversations that users have with their virtual assistants. In this way, it is confirmed that these talks are not private as many people have been thinking until now.

The Google Assistant (Google Assistant) is a virtual assistant that is integrated into all Google devices and that use the Android operating system. In this way, its use is quite common in a community as large as Android.

The person in charge of confirming this information was one of the Google spokesmen, David Monsees, who had the need to make a statement, via the official Google blog, due to various news about the privacy of this virtual assistant, which were published yesterday.

In this way, Monsees indicates all the information regarding the privacy of users when using Google Assistant. In addition, he points out that only 0.2% of them are heard.

Monsees also pointed out that legal action would be taken for the leaking of audios made by the Belgian television channels VRT and NWS. The same spokesman points out that they had been given access to said content, although not so that said information would be published publicly.

In addition, these Belgian television networks managed to obtain users' personal information, such as postal addresses and contact information. For this reason, the chains were able to contact these clients and confirm all the data.

All these types of acts go against Google's privacy principles and the agreements that existed between the two companies, for which it is likely that these television channels must pay a significant sum of money to Google.

These statements by Google have alarmed its users, because the vast majority were unaware of this type of act by this company. For this reason, it is waiting for what could happen with this type of service in the face of audio leaks recorded by Google Assistant.

Google Assistant audio leaks made by the VRT chain

Next, you will be able to see a video with some audios filtered by VRT. They were provided by a Google worker, who was following orders from the company, who had a confidential agreement with said television network.

In the audios, various conversations of Google Assistant users can be heard. Most of them are words that are exchanged between Google's virtual assistant and its users.